Santorum Needs 70% of Remaining Delegates 04/01/12

[Donna Prayer Warrior]

1. Santorum Needs 70% of Remaining Delegates

A new briefing memo from the Mitt Romney camp shows he is still far from collecting the number of delegates needed to win the GOP presidential nomination, but it also shows the seemingly insurmountable challenge Rick Santorum faces in seeking to wrest the nomination from Romney.

According to the memo, which uses figures from the Associated Press, the former Massachusetts governor currently has 568 delegates committed to vote for him. The total includes the Republican National Committee delegates who have told the AP which candidate they support.

Santorum has so far collected 273 delegates, while Newt Gingrich has 135 and Ron Paul has 50.

A candidate needs to win 1,144 of the 2,286 available delegates in order to secure the nomination.

So far, 1,028 delegates have committed to a candidate. That leaves 1,258 who are not committed. In order for Santorum to reach the 1,144 total, he will have to win 871 more delegates — 70 percent of the remaining total.

To date, he has won only 26 percent of the already committed delegates.

Adding to Santorum’s woes, recent polls cited in the memo show the former Pennsylvania senator trailing Romney by double-digit margins in California, Connecticut and Wisconsin.

The memo also refers to a new national Rasmussen poll showing that Romney leads Barack Obama in a head-to-head matchup, 45 percent to 43 percent, while Obama beats Santorum, 47 percent to 42 percent.

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[Andrew Luck (Creator & Admin)]

Thanks Donna. In my opinion, all who ran in the GOP primaries should have cabinet level positions. I, again my opinion, feel the longer we take to unite the GOP the better chance we give Obama to be re-elected. We need to be focusing on the differences between what he has said and done to what we will do differently.

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[Donna Prayer Warrior]

Brokered Convention! 

[Andrew Luck (Creator & Admin)]

Thanks for the post Donna.